Centrifugal clothes-wringer



(No Model.)

J. G. CRAWFORD. GENTRIFUGAL CLOTHES WRINGER.

No. 273,262. Patented 1V[a,r.6,1883.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES Gr. CRAWFORD, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CENTRIFUGAL CLOTHES-WRlN GER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 273,262, 'dated March6, 1883.

Application filed July 14, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES G. CRAWFORD, of Boston, in the county ofSuffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Centrifugal Glothes-VVri-ngers, of which the followingis a specification.

This is an improved self-balancing machine for wringing clothes,especially adapted to laundry and hotel use, constructed in the mannerbelow described, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, inwhich- Figure l is an elevation of a centrifugal clothes-wringerembodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same. Fig. 8is a horizontal section on line as m, Fig. 1.

Similarletters ofreferenceindicatelike parts.

A represents a hollow base, extending upward from which are the posts B,supporting the stationary outer vessel or receptacle, (J.

D is the inner vesselor receptacle, into which the clothes are placed.This has perforated sides, as usual, and is adapted to be rotated bybeing rigidly secured to the upright shaft E,-

to which is fixed the pulley E. Power is applied to said pulley by meansof an ordinary belt. This shaft E extends downward through the ball G,loosely placed in the box or bearing H, and has its bearing in thebearing disk or block I. The bearing disk or block I is secured bystraps J, preferably of leather, to hooks K, passing from the inside, asshown in Fig. 3, through the sides of the hollow base A, and secured onthe outside by means of nuts Lin such a manner as to give suitable -bleor swing sidewise by the elasticity of the straps J and the rubberwashers P and by the ball-bearing H G, provision being made for the playof the vessel D in the large opening 0 in the outer vessel, 0. As thespeed of the rotation becomes greater the balance-disk S rights andsteadies the shaft E and the vessel, and finally produces perfectrotation in each on its axis. As the machine is slowed the operation isreversed. The efi'ect of a centrifugal wringer on the clothes containedtherein is so well known as to require no explanation.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a centrifugal clothes-wringer, the combination, with the uprightshaft E and vessel D, fixed thereto, the bearings of said shaft beingsomewhat elastic or yielding laterally, as shown,of the balance-disk S,fixed to said shaft below its bearings, substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

2. The herein-described centrifugal clotheswringer, consistingessentially of the hollow base A, posts B, and stationary vessel 0, thevessel D, shaft E, and bearings H G I, the straps and hooks J K, and thebalance-disk S, constructed and arranged substantially as and for thepurpose described.

JAMES G. CRAWFORD.

' lVitnesses:

HENRY W. WILLIAMS, JOSEPH ISHBAUGH.

